Film Forum

U.S., 1947
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod
With Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Boris Karloff
Approx. 110 min. DCP.

Schnook Danny Kaye, stuck in a humdrum job, lets his fantasies run wild in his Technicolor daydreams, imagining himself as a Western outlaw, a daredevil fighter pilot, and all-round Casanova, especially with mysterious curvaceous blonde Virginia Mayo. Based on the beloved James Thurber story.

Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

Reviews

“Danny Kaye reveals a greater smoothness and polish thespically and a perfection of timing in his slapstick than has ever been evident in the past.”
– Variety